Remote gambling and software technical standards do not apply to the software you provide for overseas operators who are not licensed by the Gambling Commission.

What is gambling software?

If you are unsure whether the software you are manufacturing, supplying, installing, or adapting is gambling software read our guide: What is gambling software? which provides information on:

the definition of gambling software

when a licence will be required

additional licences gambling software businesses may need

technical standards.

Remote gambling software licence operating licence

This licence allows you to manufacture, supply, install or adapt gambling software by means of remote communication. For example, it will allow you to supply gambling software via methods of secure file transmission or to make gambling software available for download by operators from your server.

If your business manufactures or supplies gambling software using any form of non-remote communication (such as by uploading gambling software to CD or memory stick), you should also apply for a non-remote gambling software licence.

Hosts

Some gambling software businesses provide facilities for remote gambling by making their games or betting content available to customers of other operators. For example, rather than supplying their software directly to remote gambling operators, the gambling software business hosts its own games on its own server, and those games can be accessed by customers of other operators through those other operators’ websites.

If you manufacture gambling software, but also provide facilities for gambling only in circumstances in which you host those facilities through other operators’ platforms, then you may be eligible to hold a host operating licence. To hold a host licence, your business:

must hold a gambling software operating licence, and

must not contract directly with any of the customers who play the games you provide ie only customers of another operator can access your games or betting content via that other operator’s website or app.

Please see the casino (host), bingo (host), general betting (host) (real events) or general betting (host) (virtual events) licences for further details.

Application fee remote gambling software licence operating licence

Application fees

Fee category

F1

F2

G1

H1

H2

Annual gross value of sales

Less than £200,000

£200,000 or greater, up to but excluding £550,000

£550,000 or greater, up to but excluding £6.6 million

£6.6 million or greater, up to but excluding £30 million

£30 million or greater

Application Fee

£5,711

£5,711

£11,716

£14,647

£14,647

Annual fee

Your first annual fee is due 30 days after your licence is issued to you. Subsequent annual fees are due every year before the anniversary of the day your licence was issued.

For the first year, the annual fees below will be reduced by 25% (ancillary and linked licence annual fees are not subject to this reduction).

If you apply for a combination of different kinds of licence, you will get a discount on your annual fee.